SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group of San Francisco residents is suing the city to block a proposed ban on public nudity. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in fe..

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Once referred to as the "people's republic of Santa Monica" because of its socially conscious government, the Los Angeles coastal subu..

LOOMIS, Calif. (AP) — A prankster is changing the message on an electronic traffic warning sign in Northern California. The sign is supposed to tel..

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the cou..

PARIS (AP) — He started with the woman who hired him at the secretarial school, befriending her and winning her confidence. She introduced him to her elderly moth..

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of ..

BANGKOK (AP) - Thai authorities have seized a pickup truck full of deadly cobras at a checkpoint in the country's central region. They believe the snakes came from Malaysia and wer..

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A possum drop that attracts thousands of people to a tiny town in western North Carolina each New Year's Eve may have had its last hurrah aft..

CLEVELAND (AP) - A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold Tuesday at an intersection holding a si..

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variet..

LONDON (AP) — Britain's media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: "omnishambles." ..

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Several hundred spectators got an unexpected shock at a circus in Macedonia after a lion broke through a safety enclosure during a perfor..

LONDON (AP) — A European official says her staff members were hacked when they joined her for a conference on Internet security in Azerbaijan. Euro..

LONDON (AP) — British police say a 16-year-old boy who used prosthetics and dreadlocks to conduct armed robberies in disguise has been jailed for five years. ..

CHILI, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say a truck carrying nearly 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken went up in flames on its way to a supermarket in the New York town of Chi..

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande's attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation — and a..

PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) — A Central Coast candidate for mayor lost big this week. Paso Robles write-in candidate Jeff Rougeot was arrested on Elec..

MIAMI (AP) - Students from Florida International University in Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment.    To do it, they wore aquatic shoes they desig..

MIAMI (AP) — Students from Florida International University in Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment. To do it, they wore aquatic s..

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man napping in a Montana cornfield was startled out of his snooze when he was run over by a large harvesting machine — and Yellowstone ..